Lady Knights fall to ASA 76-60

02.04.14

Ahnyyah Jackson

The CCRI Lady Knights basketball team hosted the Division I Avengers of ASA College
for a game on Tuesday evening. The Lady Knights fell to the Avengers 76-60. With the
loss CCRI falls to 13-7 on the season.

The Lady Knights were fighting an uphill battle all night against the much taller
and very athletic Avenger squad. At the half the Lady Knights trailed the Avengers
45-32. In the second half CCRI trailed by as many as 20 points as ASA went on to win
by the final score of 76-60.

Leading the way for the Lady Knights was Co-Captain Ahnyyah Jackson (Hackensack, NJ)
19 points, including five 3-pointers with five rebounds and three assists and Co-Captain
Allexia Barros (New Bedford, MA) who had 12 points, including two 3-pointers with
six rebounds. Also helping CCRI was Amber Edwards (Boston, MA) with 12 points and
two rebounds, Jesse Ossian (Chandler, AZ) had eight points, eight rebounds and four
assists, and Jess Patalano (Exeter, RI) added six points and three rebounds.

Lexi Barros

Once again the dynamic duo of Lexi Barros and Ahnyyah Jackson made history as they
move up the ranks on the CCRI Lady Knights’ all-time scoring list. With her 12 points
Barros now has 884 career points ranking her No. 6 on the all-time scoring list as
she passed Jeanell Hughes who score 882 for her career. Lexi needs just 10 more points
to tie No. 5 on the scoring list Taylor Simmons who has 894 career points. Also with
141 career threes, she needs just four to become tie CCRI All-time 3-point leader
Cassie Novicky and with 71 this year Lexi needs just five to tie Novicky’s all-time
single-season mark of 83. Jackson on the other hand went from being ranked No.11 all-time
on the scoring list to No.9 by passing both Diane O’Brien 718 and Brenda Randall 823
and Jackson now has 727 career points and with just 49 more points she will tie former
teammate Nyjah Porcher with 776 points for No. 8 on CCRI the all-time scoring list.

The next game for the Lady Knights will be Saturday when they travel to Brockton,
MA to play the Warriors of Massasoit community college for a Region XXI non-league
game at 1:00pm.

The Community College of Rhode Island, New England’s largest comprehensive community
college, enrolls nearly 18,000 students in credit courses and thousands more in non-credit
and job training classes. Its athletic program boasts 12 varsity programs and an academic
support program for all student-athletes.